Auschwitz Museum Lends Personal Items to Yad Vashem

May 14, 1995

More than 50 personal items belonging to Auschwitz victims have been loaned to the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial by the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum.

The shipment, which arrived recently in Israel, was unveiled last week in the presence of Polish Foreign Minister Sladislaw Bartoszewski, himself a survivor of Auschwitz. He now serves as chairman of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum’s international advisory council.

Items include a canister of Zyklon-B, which was used in the gas chambers; toothbrushes; umbrella frames; and shoes and striped uniforms worn by prisoners.

Bartoszewski was among the first gentiles to be named a Righteous Among the Nations for efforts to save Jews during World War II.